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FBC — Lower Abbey Street

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FBC — Lower Abbey Street
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Three-bay two-storey Baptist chapel, built 1839, modified 1891, with five-bay double-height side elevation and lean-to to rear. Currently vacant. Pitched slate roof, hipped to front with two copper louvred lanterns to ridge and rendered chimneystack to rear. Cast-iron guttering on iron brackets and cast-iron downpipes. Random coursed rubble calp limestone walls, cement rendered to east side elevation. Raised parapet wall to front elevation with central pediment to shallow breakfront and deep moulded cornice spanning front elevation. Deep moulded cornice between ground and first floors with slight recess over central entrance bay. Slender round-headed window openings throughout with architrave surrounds to first floor of front elevation having single-pane timber sliding sash windows. Double-height window openings to east side elevation with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and granite sills. Square-headed window openings to ground floor with tripartite timber-framed windows and moulded sills. Central square-headed door opening with steel roller shutter flanked by paired Doric pilasters having moulded bases and earlier stucco capitals. Door opens onto granite platform spanning front elevation and four granite steps, all enclosed to street by decorative cast-iron railings and gates with decorative scrolled iron braces.

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